Speaker biographies
Cary Coglianese is an associate dean, the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law, a professor of political science, and the director of the Penn Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He specializes in the study of regulation and regulatory processes, with a particular emphasis on the empirical evaluation of alternative regulatory strategies and the role of disputing, negotiation, and business-government relations in regulatory policy making. Prior to joining Penn Law, Mr. Coglianese spent twelve years on the faculty at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he served as the chair of the regulatory policy program and director of the politics research group. His work has appeared in the Administrative Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Law & Society Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Stanford Law Review, among others. His books include Regulating from the Inside: Can Environmental Management Systems Achieve Policy Goals? (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).
Susan Dudley is the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) at the Office of Management and Budget. Before joining OIRA, Ms. Dudley directed the regulatory studies program at the nonprofit Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where she also taught courses on regulation. Earlier in her career, Ms. Dudley served as a career civil servant at OIRA, at the Environmental Protection Agency, and at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
John Graham is dean of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Mr. Graham’s research includes government reform, energy and the environment, and the future of automobiles in both developed and developing countries. Previously, he served as dean of the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School at the RAND Corporation in California. Previously, Mr. Graham served as the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 2001 to 2006. Prior to the OMB, Mr. Graham was a tenured professor of policy and decision sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Robert W. Hahn is a senior fellow at AEI and founder and executive director of AEI’s Reg-Markets Center, which continues the AEI-Brookings Joint Center’s mission of examining cutting-edge issues in law, economics, regulation, and antitrust. Previously, he worked for the Council of Economic Advisers and served on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University. He frequently contributes to leading scholarly journals and general-interest periodicals, including the American Economic Review, the Yale Law Journal, Science, and the New York Times. Mr. Hahn is the author of Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective (AEI Press, 2000) and several other books. In addition, Mr. Hahn is cofounder of the Community Preparatory School, an inner-city middle school in Providence, R.I., that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.
Sally Katzen is a visiting professor of law at the George Mason University School of Law. Ms. Katzen previously taught at the University of Michigan Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the Georgetown University Law Center. From 1993 until 1998, she served as the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and then became the deputy director of the White House National Economic Council (1998–99). Ms. Katzen returned to the OMB in 1999 as the deputy director for management. Before her government service, Ms. Katzen was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, specializing in administrative law and legislative matters. She has served in various leadership roles in the American Bar Association, including chair of the section on administrative law and regulatory practice.
Richard Morgenstern is a senior fellow at Resources for the Future. Mr. Morgenstern’s research focuses on the economic analysis of environmental issues with an emphasis on the costs, benefits, evaluation, and design of environmental policies, especially economic incentive measures. His analysis also focuses on climate change, including the design of cost-effective policies to reduce emissions in the United States and abroad. Perviously, Mr. Morgenstern was a senior economic counselor to the undersecretary for global affairs at the Department of State, where he participated in negotiations for the Kyoto Protocol. He also served at the Environmental Protection Agency, where he acted as deputy administrator (1993); assistant administrator for policy, planning, and evaluation (1991–93); and director of the Office of Policy Analysis (1983–95). Formerly a tenured professor at the City University of New York, Mr. Morgenstern has also taught at Oberlin College, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Yeshiva University, and American University. He has served on expert committees of the National Academy of Sciences and as a consultant to various organizations.
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